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SAVANNAH: 

MORNING NEWS STEAM-rOVVEK PKKSS. 

18G9. 



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TO 



ANTHONY BAIU^l.AY, ESQ., 



THE FOLLOWING PAGER 



ARE UESrECTFULLY INSCRIBED 



PREFACE. 



The following pages in English contain the 
substance of a paper jn-eparecl for the Georgia 
Historical Society, at the suggestion of a fellow- 
member. The trip to the North was too short 
to furnish much of interest for a narrative ; 
and it therefore occurred to me that a Latin 
translation might serve the double purpose of 
whiling away a little leisure time in the hot 
season, and of amusing some friends for whom the 
undertaking was principally intended. That the 
Latin translation is faulty, I am well aware; 
and it is not unlikely that the task of trying 
to lick it into shape has \mi me under the ban 
of Horace's censure: 

In vitium ducit cuIpcB fuga, si caret arte. 

Besides the intrinsic difficulties of Latin com- 
position, there are others peculiar to the present 
time. Such are the attempts to use terms of 



6 PREFACE. 

art, and })roper names, unknown to the ancient 
Romans. For exam})le: it seems that navis- 
vapoi-oHa means a steam- shij); and vet there is 
no snch Latin word as vaporarius. So of a 
railroad: \'vA~ferrea expresses the idea, and has 
actually been adopted as the Latin name. 
What word Cicero would have used, we can 
only conjecture. There is no Latin agreeing 
entirely with the Elnglish word 7;«rZ'. Parous 
is of modern origin, and means a pound, rather 
than a park — always, perhaps, a place of con- 
finement for animals. Ccemeterium, for ceinetery, 
being; of Greek orio-in, is hardly a fair substi- 
tute for sepulchrwn or sepulchretum; but I have 
used the first and the last, indifferently. The 
English word caiial is very different from the 
Latin canalis; but fossa-navigabilis, the true 
term for the English words namgahle canal, 
would sound awkAvardly, if repeatedly applied 
even to the largest canal — the Erie canal, for 
instance. Similar observations ,are applicable 
to the Grreek-English word museum, and the 
French-English word depot. Catarada, says 
learned authority, is used in Latin: only of the 



PRf:FACE. 



waterfalls of the Nile. Wlicthcr centui-io, or 
ordinum dux, be the true Latin for captaiii of 
foot in the En.<j;lisli and American ^service, critics 
must determine. These remarks need not be 
extended. Terms of art, and other words, not 
in use by the ancient Romans, I have gener- 
ally put in italics. In the computation of time, 
I have not followed the Roman division of the 
months into Kalends, Nones, and Ides. 

In the department of proper names, much dif- 
iiculty has been encountered. How the ancient 
word Zephyrium is the Latin for West-Point, is 
not easily perceived. On this point — I mean 
West Point — see the English-Latin lexicon of 
Rev. Joseph Esmond Riddle and Rev. Thomas 
Kerchever Arnold, (founded on the Grerman- 
Latin of Dr. Charles Ernest Georges,) and edited 
by Dr. Charles Anthon— edition of 1849. Har- 
lemum, as well as Harlema, seems to be the Latin 
for Harlem. Harvard and Nassau-Hall would 
rise in arms against the use of any other Roman 
words than RespuhUcce Fcederatce^ for the United 
States; although those words do mean Confed- 
erate, rather than United, States. In the only 



8 PREFACE. 

reference I have made to the "Confederate 
States/' civitates, and not respubUcce, has been 
used. To go no further : I have made no 
attempt to tra*\islate such words as McIntosh, 
Sprauue, and Adams. 

It would be an error to suppose that the 
Latia of the succeeding pages was turned mio 
English^ (as a friend, to whom I broke the en- 
terprise, facetiously surmised,) for the benefit 
of "country members'' of the (reorgia His- 
torical Society. The Society has nothing to 
do with the Latin ; nor has any body else 
who is disposed to criticise motive or act. 

To friends at the North, from whom my 
children and myself received so much kind- 
ness, many, many thanks are due. The repe- 
tition of these thanks, even in a dead lan- 
guage, will not, I trust, be unacceptable, al- 
though clothed in only a tolerable dress. 

Finally : I hereby retui-n thanks to the 
literary friends in Savannah who have gen- 
erously aided me in the limce lahoi-. 

Edward J. Harden. 

Savannah, November, 18G8. 



NOTES 



SHORT NORTUERiN TOUR. 



On tbc 2OII1 (lay of June, in the year of 
our Lord 18G8, at five o'clock iu the after- 
noon, accompanied by my oldest daughter and 
my little son, I embarked on board the steam- 
ship called the San Salvador, captain Xicker- 
son, about to leave for New-York. With a 
favoring breeze and jjleasant weatlier, we 
passed T^i^ee light-house about dusk. The 
sea was almost entirely quiet, with roughness 
just sufficient to excite to nansea, and to com- 
jjcl certain of the passengers, niyself included, 
to pay the accustomed tribute to Xei)tune. 
We had pleasant company on board, with a 
sui)i)ly of all things necessary for the voyage. 
After a propitious night, we awoke to realize, 
as it were, the force of Yirgirs expression : 
2 



10 S(n'Kr^ OF A 

* * * * ncc Jan ampliifn iilla 

Occttrrif (d/as; aeltiin nmliqiic, ef ii/ndique pordus : 

(wbicl}, freely tunie<l into Eiig-lish, means ; 
'' nothing' ]>nt sky and water.") Morning dis- 
closed to me anotlier tiling, to wit: that my 
daughter and others of the passengers were 
Hnff'ering with severe sea-sickness : and in that 
condition some continued t(> the end of the 
Voyage. Tlie residue of the trip was remark- 
a))le for nothing, except th.e smoothness of the 
yea, the siglit of three or four whah.'s, and the 
catching of one stormy petrel. To those who 
travel by sea, it may afford comfort to know 
that the above-named little bird, wdiich is very 
rarely seen on land, and is commonly called 
Mother Cfirei/s Chkhen, ])econ]Cs sea-sick as 
s(^on as it is taken aboard the vessel. So, at 
least, sailors assert ; and in this matter there 
seems to be confirmation ; since, this bird, as 
soon as it is taken into the vessel, always 
begins to vomit. Of this we saw two other 
examples on our return. 

We had a fellow-voyager, snrnamed Morti- 
mer, who, in former vears, had commanded in 



8H0RT XORTllEKN TOrH. H 

the raercliaiit service. He eutertained liis 
Jriends with pleasant stories and s[>()i'tive 
tricks — grateful, especially, to tlie yonnger 
travelers. On accoiuit of the etymology of 
his name, lie was jocosely called, by some of 
us, Bead- Sea- Man. 

In the afternoon of the twenty-third day of 
June, we reached the ))ay of New- York ; and, 
the weather being clear, a most beautiful pros- 
pect was opened to us in our a])proach to the 
city. Coming to pier numbei' eight. North 
river, it appeared that there was at least one 
l)erson in the metropolis who knew me. He 
had been a captain in the army of the Con- 
federate States, and had received an honor- 
able wound at the assault on Fort Pulaski. 
After no small trouble in making a bargain 
for the transportation of our baggage from the 
shij), we are driven to the St. James Hotel, 
situate at the coi'uer of Broadway and Twen- 
ty-sixth street. Here we have }>leasant quar- 
ters assigned us ; and here, after supi)er, we 
retire to bed — as to two of our company, for 
the first time in that citv. That we had lit- 



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tie vest, I deem it unnecessary to say. T<» 
any one judging' only hy the sound of the 
little bells of the street-ears, the noise of othei* 
vehicles, and the tread of pedestrians, it might 
f)e ])ermitted to l)elieye that slee]) has no place 
in New- York. ]>y the way, it is worthy of 
note that the street rail-ways are amongst the 
wonderful things in the city. How. withont 
them, the glut of the thronged thoroughfares 
could 1)0 relieved, is not easily comprehended. 
Throngh the kindness of a friend to whom 
we carried letters, we were driven, in a coach- 
and-two, first through Central Pai'k : and as 
far as High-Bridge, over which fl(^w^s the wa- 
ter of Croton i-iver from which the city re- 
ceives its supply : on another day, through 
Greenwood Cemetery. The want of forest 
trees in the Park was the only thing that dis- 
appointed us : in other respects, the place is 
greath^ to lie admired. In the Cemetery, no- 
thing struck me as so appropriate as the colos- 
sal statue, near the entrance, erected to the 
memory of De Witt Clinton ; whose more en- 
during monument, however, is the Erie canal, 



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u,t first called, iu derision, Clintons ditch, and 
of which we shall hereaftei* say more. Of t\w 
pleasant location and the adornments of the 
Cemetery, it is difficnlt to say too nnich. 

After three days in })art spent hi deliver- 
ing letters and receiving- and visiting friends, 
we prepared for ascending the Hndscm river 
in the day-time. Among the friends whom 
we delighted to see, befoi-e leaving the city, 
were the learned anthoress. Maria J. Mcin- 
tosh, and her sister. The former is widely 
known as a writer ; and her literary works 
do honor to the whole country, and especially 
to her native Sonth. 

On the twenty-seventh day of June, we em- 
barked on board the steamer (\ Vibbard, on 
our way to Saratoga and Niagara, by way of 
Albany the seat of government of the " Em- 
I)ire State " of the North. To those who have 
ascended the Hudson, it is not meet that we 
attempt a description of the agreeable and 
grand prospects on either bank of the river; to 
all others, such an attempt wT^uld be of little 
'use. With a clear sky and pleasant weather, 



14 NOTES OF A 

we liad the iinest oppoi'tauity for seeing 
every thiiifi; whieh the ra|)i(lity of our course 
would permit to be ])i'(ni,aht to view, (\inal- 
hoats and other vessels, ladeu with j>i'oduee 
and merchandise, were wending* their lazy way 
towards New- York city. Ever and anon, we 
are astounded 1)V the sight of a long ti-ain of 
<mrs, driven, with the swiftness of a l)ird, over 
the track of the Hudson River rail-r(tad : now, 
on the very brink of the river, and under 
over-hanging mountains ; then, either entering 
or emerging i'rom a tunnel cut thr(nmli the 
high land. In })rosecuting our voyage at a 
l)end of the river, near West-Point, the turn 
is so sudden that the river seems to come to 
an end. So deceptive is the api)earance, that 
my son inquired whether it were not true ; but, 
suddenly, the vessel being turned to the left, 
the river is again seen to flow in its narrow- 
ed channel. During the tri}), we met one of 
the fjenns homo, a Bostonian ; who, loquacious 
even to garrulity when not questioned, would 
never respond to a direct and ])ertinent in- 
((uiry ; invariably avoiding an answer, as fol- 



^Hoirr NOirrHKi?x toiTv. 15 

lows: '-How should I kiunv?" — "really, T do 
not know/' 

About nine or ten hours after leaving- New- 
York, we arrived at Albany situate on the 
right and west bank of the river. There we 
learned that the eonneetion with Saratoga had 
been lost for that day ; and, although we 
remembered that the next day would ])e the 
L(^rd"s day, such was the heat at Albany that 
we determined to proceed next morning to 
Saratoga. There we arrived at ten o'clock 
in the morning ; passhig in sight of Troy, 
situate on the opposite and left bank of thc> 
river ; and having, on the [)assage, and for 
the first time, a sight of the great Erie canal. 
This great work, as one of our friends in 
New- York said, is necessary to the sui)i)lying 
<^f bread to that place, notwithstanding the 
many rail- roads tending thither. 

We remained three days at Saratoga, the 
weather being cool and fair ; our time being 
pleasantly taken up in viewing the different 
springs and the pleasant grounds, as well as 
in receiving the hospitality of a citizen of that 



16 XOTKS OF A 

l)lace, and of his laiiiily. Here we received 
letters from liome. If time had not l)eeii 
wanting, >Aa' would Irave i-emained two weeks 
at ^^aratooa. instead of the aforesaid sojonrn 
of three days. 

On the first day of »lnly, we leave [Sara- 
toga, entering n})on our journey towards Nia- 
gara. ^^hortly after entering the ears, we 
made the acquaintance of a gentleman, who, 
with his family, was traveling on oui' ronte 
almost as far as Rochester. He was found to 
he a ca})tain in the Forty-second regiment of 
the United States ami}', stationed at ]*latts- 
l)urg. He was of great service to us, in 
pointing out places on the ronte, as well as 
in other ways. 

At Schenectady, it was necessar}' for us to 
await the arrival of the express train of cars. 
The day proved to be commencement day of 
Union College ; and the streets were crowded 
with prettil}' dressed ladies and girls, Ijesides 
a great throng of men and hoys. Besides 
this, the show of a hand-organ and monkey, 
and the exhibition of Dan Rice's circus-actors 



SHORT NORTHERN TOUR. 17 

and beasts, could be seen in the streets. The 
town was very lively ; but, not taking into 
the account the sight of a great many pretty 
women, we there most enjoyed a taste of 
cherries, the first we saw on our tour. 

At two in the afternoon, we took the great 
Central rail-road, on our way to Niagara. In 
the route, we rarely lost sight of the beautiful 
valley of the Mohawk, almost to its termina- 
tion. Handsome villages, large cities, highly 
ornamented grounds, fat cattle, flocks of sheep, 
fields waving with grain, and the most beau- 
tiful prospects, were meeting the eye, until 
night. Over and over again, we crossed the 
Erie canal burdened with riches. Of the great 
importance of this work, in bringing wealth to 
Clinton's State, or of this imperishable monu- 
ment reared by himself, as it turned out, to 
his own memory, it is difficult to form a pro- 
per estimate : 

Monumentum si quceris, circumspice! 

A little after midnight, we reached Suspen- 
sion-Bridge, whence, in a hackney-coach, we 
are carried to the International Hotel, said to 
3 



18 NOTES OF A 

be cue of the best in America. From our 
beds we could distinctly hear the roar of the 
cataract and the murmuring of the rapids. 
To me these sounds did not induce sleep : 
what the morning would disclose I anxiously 
awaited. In the morning, breakfast being over, 
our first business Avas to see the cataract by 
far excelling all others. Crossing Suspension- 
Bridge, we are at once in the Dominion of 
Canada, and beholding the precipitous falls. 
The roads are dusty, and the weather very 
hot : still, we are not disappointed. To one 
who has not seen Niagara, no description of 
it will suffice. / was satisfied with a general 
view of the falls and their surroundings ; and 
was not disposed to linger on the smaller ad- 
juncts, such as the remnant of Table-Rock, 
Groat-Island, or other matters : nor did I choose 
to run the hazard of going underneath the 
descending flood ; in which thing, being judge 
in my own case, "distance" would ever "lend 
enchantment to the view."' My enjo^mient of 
Niagara was lessened by the fact that the 
sun seemed In me to rise in the west, and set 



SHORT NORTHERN TOUR. 19 

in the east ! The money expended in visiting 
the mnsenm, on the Canada side, was fully 
repaid by the sight of two full-grown bisons, 
in a stable adjoining ; which animals, although 
confined, plainly showed their wild nature. 
Returning from the Canada side, and having 
dined and supped, we took the cars, at ten 
minutes past seven, on our return to New- 
York through Albany. 

Reaching Albany at six the next morning, 
we found the weather still quite warm. As 
on the upward trip, we lodge at the Delavan 
House. After breakfast, my son accompany- 
ino: me, I called on the Reverend Doctor 
William B. Sprague, whom I had before known 
by correspondence. By him I was kindly 
received. Besides the great estimation in 
which he is held, as a preacher of the gospel, 
orator, and author, he is very extensively 
known as an assiduous and successful collector 
of autographs. After dinner, on arriving at 
the depot of the Harlem rail-road, at three in 
the afternoon, it was first announced to us 
that the thermometer had reached one hun- 



20 NOTES OF A 

dred and ten degrees : shortly after, throngli 
another messenger, we heard that it had 
reached the ninety-second degree, and was 
still rising. We supposed that the truth, as 
usual, was about the middle, and that the 
heat ranged somewhere under one hundred 
degrees. The weather was certainly hot. 

Leaving Albany, by the Harlem road above 
mentioned, it was our intention to tarry a 
little while, on our way to New- York, at the 
house of a friend to whom we had sent letters 
in advance. This purpose being frustrated by 
causes beyond our control, we proceeded on 
to New-York, where we arrived that night. 
There we found that great preparation had 
been made for celebrating the fourth of July ; 
besides that the convention of the Democratic 
party, for selecting candidates for the Presi- 
dency and Vice-Presidency of the United 
States, was to be held the same day. The 
city, therefore, was full of strangers ; but the 
capacit}^ of the metropolis equaled the emerg- 
ency. 

We remained in the city until the eighth 



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of the month, enjoying ourselves as well as 
we could in the great heat. On the day of 
our departure, through the kindness of a 
friend, we were driven to Central Park, and 
as far as Jerome Park. Many other kind- 
nesses of the same sort were conferred on us 
in New- York. To the many friends we there 
met, the utmost thanks are due. The men- 
tion of their names would hardly be proper. 
Of these friends, one, to whom I carried let- 
ters, but whom I had not previously known, 
again and again insisted that I should draw 
on him for whatever money we might need. 

On account of our limited time, it was not 
fully in our power to see the most remark- 
able sights in the city. Trinity Church, as I 
suppose, is considered the most si:>lendid of its 
public buildings ; and the spire is certainly 
magnificent, especially when viewed near ; 
nevertheless, in my judgment, the interior of 
the church on Madison Park, under tlie pas- 
toral care of the Reverend Doctor William 
Adams, is better adapted to divine worship. 

On the eighth day of July, we embarked 



22 NOTES OF A SHORT KOE^fHEKX TOUR, 

on l)oarcl the steam-ship Rapidan, captain 
Cheesman, who has the faculty of endearing 
himself to his passeng'crs. After another most 
favorable view of the beautiful bay of New- 
York, we passed the high-lands on the Jersey 
shore ; and, at sun-set, we put to sea. For 
some time, were seen the lights through the 
windows of the houses at Long-Branch, shin- 
ing above the waves. With a sea more tran- 
quil than on the outward voyage, the trip was 
enlivened with good cheer. As before said, 
we caught two other stormy petrels ; but, as 
on the former occasion, they were soon turned 
loose. 

At three o'clock in the morning of the 
twelfth of July, we touched the wharf at 
Savannah ; returning home in health, and 
finding the family well. Our journeying was 
short, but pleasant ; sweeter the return and 
o-reetinff. 



TIIANSLATION. 



DE 

ITINERE BREA^I SEPTENTRIONALI 

NOT^. 



Die vicesimo Junii, anno Domini m dcoc lx- 
VIII., liora quinta post meridiem, filia mea natii 
maxima, filioque meo parvo, comitibus, navem 
vaporariain Sanctum 8ahatorem nominatam, 
prsefecto Nickersonio, Novum-Eboracum navi- 
gaturam, conscendi. Pharum - Tybeii, aura 
favente et coelo sereno, circiter crepusculum, 
prseterivimus. Paene quiescit mare, deiiciente 
asperitate ampliori quam satis ad nauseam 
movendam, et quosdam e vectoribus imi)ellen- 
dos, (me ad numerum pertinente,) tributum 
usitatum Neptuno solvere. Nobis in nave so- 
cietas jucunda fuit, cum viaticorum omnium 
copia. Post noctem benignam, expergiscimur, 
vim quasi Maronis verborum persentire : 

* * * * nee jam, amplius ulla 

OcGurrit teUus ; caelum undique, et undique pontus. _ 



2(j [)K ITINKHK HltKVI 

Aui'oni mihi rem aliain retexit, scilicet : fi li- 
mn ineani ct alios e viatoribns nausea gi-avi 
cruciatos ; et, in statu illo, uscjue ad finem 
navigatiouis. ]>ennanserunt nonnulli. Proptei- 
nihil. ]>i-a'tei- 5e(jU(tris traii(|uillitateni, cetoruni 
ti'iuni (|uatuoi-ve visum, et t/x/ff/ssklroince pda- 
(jiccE unius captioneni, notatione (li,a;nuin luit 
itineris residnuni. Mare transenntibus sit sola- 
tio, si cognoscerent aviculam supra dictani. in 
ten-am mrissime visam, et vnlgo Mat r is- Care iw- 
puUuin nuncu])atain, nausea laborare simul ut 
in navem a eliatui- : saltem, sic aiunt nautici j 
et in hac i-e videtur confirmationem esse, 
(juoniani avis Inec, simul ac ad navem feratur. 
semper vomei-e incipit. Kjusdem rei exemi)la 
duo alia, in reditn nostro, vidimus. 

Convectoi-em habuimus, cognoniine Moirri- 
MKR. (jui. ainiis suj)erioribus, navibus mei'cato- 
riis pi-a'iuerat. Animus amicoi'um narrationibus 
jiicundis detinebat, artibusque Jocosis — vectori- 
bus })arvis. pra3ci])ue. gratis. Propter etymo- 
logiam nominis ejus, nonnnllis e nobis Maris- 
Mortvi-Homo facete appellatus est. 

Post meridiem Junii diei vieesimi-tertii, in 



SEl'TENTRLONAM NO'lVE. 27 

shimii Xeo-EboracensiMn [)ei-Yi'iiinnis ; ct tem- 
[jestate seriMia. nobis in acccssn ad ni'lxMn 
prospectns pnlcherriiniis patefactus est. Mihi 
inoleni octavani. (Angliee, pier number eight,) 
Fluvii-Septentrionalis advenienti, uniim niini- 
nie in mdropoli de nie non ignorare, constabat. 
(Vnturio in exereitu (vivitatum Foederataruni 
fuerat : vuhiuscpie honoritieuni, tempore oppiig- 
tiandi Pulaskeii-Propugnaeuli, acceperat. Post 
laborem non ])arvnm paeto faciendo de sar- 
cinis nostri-s e nave ])ortandis, ad Hospitium 
Jacobi-Sancti, in compito Vias-latai Vijeque 
vicesimae-sextfe situm, vehimnr. Hie, nobis 
medium pars amnena assignatur ; et, ibidem, 
post coenam, eubitnm discedimus — quoad duos 
e nobis, tempore primo in urbe ilia. Quan- 
tulum quietis nobis erat, non neeesse habeo 
dieere. Alicui, sono tintinnabuloi-nm ad car- 
ros-viarios pertinentium, veliicniornm alioruni 
sonitu, ambulatorumque incessu, solum judiean- 
ti, somnum in urbe Novo-Eboraco loeum non 
habere, credere licet. Obiter, notatu dignnm 
est vias-ferreas in hac urbe inter res mirandas 
esse. Quomodo, sine illis, viarum perviaruni 



Z8 DE ITINERE BREVl 

satias levata esset, iion facile percipiendum 
est. 

Per favorein amici cui literas pertulimus, 
per Parc?/m - Centralem, primuin ; et usque 
Pontem-Altum, super quern fluit aqua amniculi 
Crotonii qua suppeditatur urbs, curriculo bi- 
j'ugo, vecti sumus : die alio, per Cmmeterium- 
Silvfe-Viridis. Arborum agrestium in Parm 
defectus spem nostram solum destituit : alioqui, 
valde locus mirandus est. In Sepulchreto, 
uiliil aeque idoneum ac statua colossea, juxta 
introituni, in memoriam De Yittii Clintonii 
statuta, me affecit ; monumentum cujus peren- 
nius, attamen, est Fossa navigabilis (Canalis 
seu) Eriea, primo, in ludibrio, fossa Clintonii 
appellata ; et de qua posthac largius dicemus. 
De amoenitate et ornamentis Coemeterii niraium 
eloqui difficile est. 

Post tres dies, partim in Uteris tradendis 
et amicis accipiendis et visendis, consumptos, 
ad ascendendum, luci, Fluvium-Hudsonii, nos 
accinximus. Ex amicis quos la3te vidimus 
antequam ex urbe decessimus, fuerunt auctor 
ilia erudita, Maria J. McIntosh, et soror. 



SEPTENTRIONALI NOT^.. 29 

Prior pro scriptore notissima; est ; et, patriae 
toti, Austro nativitatis ejus praecipue, honorem 
tribuunt opera illius literaria. 

Die vicesimo-septimo Junii, nSiYem- vapor a- 
riam C. Yibbarclum, in itinere nostro faciendo 
A''ersus Saratogam Niagaramque — per Albani- 
an!, sedem politise Ctvitatis-Imperii (Anglice, 
Empire State,) Septentrionalis — conscendimus. 
lis, qui Fluvium-Hudsonii ascendissent, pros- 
pectuum amoenorum et aliorum in ripa utraque, 
descriptionem nos conari non oportet : caeteris 
omnibus minime prosit conatus ejusmodi. Coelo 
sereno tempestateque jucunda, nobis data est 
occasio summa videndi omnia quae, itineris 
celeritate quadantenus obstante, viderentur. 
Qiymhdd-Ganales et naviculae aliae, frugibus mer- 
ceque onerat^, versus urbem Novum-Ebora- 
cum itinera otiosa faciebant. Identidem, as- 
pectu longse carrorum seriei per orbitam 
vite - ferreae Fluvii - Hudsonii, avis celeritate, 
coactorum, stupemus ; niodo, in margine mero 
amnis, et sub montibus superimpendentibus ; 
tunc, subeuntium infundibulum per terram 
altam effossum, aut ex eodem emergentium. 



30 HE rnxf<:RE uuevt 

[tiiiei'C rncicMido ;i|in(l tlcxum ainiiis, juxta Z('])li- 
yriiun. (Anglicc, West-Point,) turn subitus est 
Hexus, nt fliiviiis fiiiem faeere videatiir. Taiita 
est speeiei fallaeia, nt nuin species non esset 
vera (jmcsivit filiiis mens : sed. statim gyrata 
nav(> sinistrorsnm. flnvins. hie ninltnni eoni- 
pressns, iternni ((niete in alxeo aretiori finere 
visns est. In itinere, nni de g-enere hnniano 
obvenimns, Bostoniensi, ciiii, nsqne ad garrnli- 
tateni lixpiax <|nnin non interrogatns, nniuinani 
ad rofratnni directnm aptnmqne responderet : 
semper responsum vitans, modis sec^nentibns ; 

UXDK ID SCdJK.M ? — VEKK. XEt^CIO. 

Horas novem deeemve postipiam Xovo- 
Eboraco decesserannis, nrbeni Albanian! in dex- 
tra et oeeidentali fUivii ripa sitam, advenimns. 
Ibi eonjnnctionem. [)ro die illo, cnm Saratoga 
amissam esse, eertiores faeti snnnis : et, qnam- 
(piam diem proximnra diem Dominienm intu- 
rnin esse tnnc nobis in menteni venit, tamen 
tantiis fnit a^stus Albanise, eonsilinm cejti- 
mns nt mane Saratogam [)rogi'edirenun'. Illo. 
liora decima matntina,^ advenimns : in eon- 
spectu Troja^ in altera sinistraqne ripa posita*. 



SEPTKNTRIONALI NOT.^^:. 31 

l)rogredicntes : et habeiites, in transitu, jn-i- 
niuni, visum fJanaUs Erietv niagna\ Hoc opus 
ingens, ut dixit nnus ex auiiois nostris in url^e 
Novo-Eboraco, ad iVugcs tribuendas loco illi 
necessariuni est, tanietsi via^-ferrea3 niultiv ad 
ui'beni i)ertinentes in rationeni haberentur. 

Saratoga? ti-es dies niansinius, tempestate 
IVig-jdula coeloque sei'eno ; otio nostro, tani. fon- 
tibus variis lo(^is(|Uc auxenis videndis, jucunde 
consuinpto, quani bospitiis acci})iendis e cive 
loci illius faniiliaque t'jus. Hue literse ab domo 
ad nos commeant. Xi defecisset teinpus, Sa- 
ratogas dies (juatuordecini niansissemus, vice 
diei'uni triuni connnorationis nostra? jjrffiscrip- 
ta?. 

Die primo Julii, decedimus Saratoga, itei- 
versus Xiagaram ingredientes. Xobis carros 
intrantibus, viri ingenui notitiam asoiscimus ; 
<|ui, cum fanulia ejus, per viam nosti'am pro})e 
usque Rottam, i)roficiscebatnr. Eum centnrio- 
nem esse in legione (juadragesima - secunda 
Rerunqmblicarum Foederatarum in l*Iattsburgo 
collocata, videtur. Xobis tani in locis per 
viam ostendendis, quam in modis aliis diver- 
sis, maxime profuit. 



32 DE ITINERE BREVI 

Schenectadise, quod ordiiiem celerein veliic- 
ulorum viam-ferream perciirreritium exspecta- 
remus, opus est. Dieui cornitiorum Collegii- 
Urdonis esse, a})})aruit ; et per vias inceduiit 
mulieres puella3que multa? exornatte, prater 
catervara magnam virorum pueroruraque. 
Preeterea, organi-manualis et siiriiie spectacu- 
luni, et cirei - actorum bestiarumque Danielis 
Ricei exliibitio, in viis viderentur, Yald(* 
vigebat vicus ; sed, femiiiarum venustarum 
frequentiffi visu in rationem neutiquain habito, 
potius gustatu cerasorum, quas tunc primuni 
in itinere vidimus, quam re alia fruimur. 

Hora secunda post meridiem, in viam ver- 
sus Niagaram, per viam-ferream magnam Cen- 
tralem, nos dedimus. In itinere, raro e con- 
spectu vallem formosam Moliaul^ei, prope 
usque partem superiorem ejus, amisimus. Yici 
speciosi, urbes lat^, fundi exculti, pecora pin- 
guia, ovium greges, arva segete nutantia, et 
prospectus pulclierrimi, ad noctem sub aspectum 
veniebant. (7a?zafem-Erieam, divitiis oneratam, 
iterum iterumque transivimus. Magno de mo- 
mento operis hujus, opibus ad civitatem Clin- 



SEPTENTRIONALI NOT^. 33 

TONii fereiidis, vel de monumento illo i)ei'eiini 
[)er se in memoriam siiam, ut evenit, a3dificato, 
judicium fiacere satis idoneuni, difficile est. 

Monumentam xi qtuerix, circum>'j)ice ! 

Paulo post horam duodecimam, noctu, Pon- 
tem - Pensilein adveiiimus ; uiide, in vehiculo 
meritorio, ad Hospitiuni Internationale Yocatum, 
et, ut fertur, unum ex optiuiis in America, 
vehimur. A cubiculis nostris clare audiebantur 
aquag-dejectus fremitus, rapidorumque torren- 
tium nuirmura. Mihi somnum sonitus non 
induxerunt : quod lux matutina patefaceret, 
videre flagitabam. Mane, jentaculo finito, 
primo, aquarum - dejectum (Anglice, cataract,) 
longe aliis pi'a3stantiorera, videre nostrum est. 
Pontem - Pensilem transeuntes, semel in Do- 
minio Canadae sumus, ac simul aquarum lapsus 
prfecipites aspicimus. Viae pulverulentae sunt, 
valdeque calet tempestas ; sed, his rebus non 
obstantibus. spe non falsi sunms. Alieui non 
reapse Xiagaram videnti, rem inspiciendam 
I)roprie offerre, non est arbitrii cujusvis. Mihi 
suffecit aquarum - dejectus et circumstantium 
aspectus generalis ; et rebus inferioribus ad- 
5 



34 DE ITINERE BREVI 

junctis, ut Scopuli-Mensalis residuo, Capri- 
Insult, et cseteris, immorari mihi non placuit: 
neqiie me periciilum facere aquae lapsus 
subeuiidi, delectabat ; qua re, me judice in 
causa mea, aspectui distantia suavitatem sem- 
per prteberet. Mihi multo defuit Niagara de- 
lectatio, quia ab occidente solem oriri, et in 
oriente occidere, videtur! Pecunia impensa 
in visendo spectaculorum loco (Anglice, Mu- 
seum,) in ripa Canadensi, plene reddita est 
in videndis adultis duobus bisontibus, {hohus 
Americanis dictis,) in stabulo adjacente ; quas 
animalia, etsi coercita, naturam feram aperte 
significaverunt. Ab ripa Canadensi redeuntes, 
pransi et coenati, carros conscendimus, mo- 
mento decimo post horam septimam, per 
Albaniam versus Novum-Eboracum redituri. 

Albaniam advenientes, hora sexta matutina 
postridie, tempestatem adhuc calere invenimus. 
In ^de-Delavana, ut in itinere sursum faci- 
endo, diversamur. Post jentaculum, filio com- 
ite, GrULiELMUM B. Sprague, theologiae docto- 
rem reverendum, quem antea epistolarum 
commercio noveram, visi. Ab illo benigne 



SEPTENTRIONALI NOT^. 35 

acceptus sum. Prasterqiiaiii quod in sestima- 
tione magna, ut eA^angelii pr^dicator, orator 
auctorque liabetur, late ut mdogra'phorimi col- 
lector assiduus faustusque notus est. Post 
prandium, ad receptaculum via^-ferre^e Harlemi 
advenientes, hora tertia post meridiem, thermo- 
metnmi (instrumentum ad temperiem ostenden- 
dam) gradus centum et decern assequi, nobis 
primum nunciatum est ; postea aliquanto, ad 
gradum nonagesimum et secundum assecutum 
esse, et adhuc ingravescere, per nuncium alte- 
rum audivimus. Yeritatem quasi in medio, 
ut usitate, fuisse, et sestum sub gradibus cen- 
tum aliquanto pervagatum esse, putabamus. 
Caluit, vere. 

Albania exeuntibus, per viam-Harlemi, quam 
supra memoravimus, nobis in animo erat, ut 
paulisper, in via versus Novum -Eboracum, 
moraremur in domo amici cui literas prsemi- 
seramus. Hoc proposito causis baud penes 
nos frustrato, urbem Novum-Eboracum versus 
perreximus, illo eadem nocte adeuntes. Ibi, 
ut videbatur, ad diem Julii quartum celebran- 
dum acerrime pr^eparatum est ; praeterquam 



36 DE ITINERE BREVI 

quocl conveiitnm partis Democratica^ ad can- 
didatos pro Pra^fectiira Yice - Pra^fectiiraque 
Reriimpublicarum Foideratariim seligendos, 
eodem die haljituiii iri, iiwenimus. Urbs ad- 
veiiis, idcirco, abundabat : rem natam, nihil- 
ominiis, metropolis amplitudine aequiparavit. 

Mensis diem usque ad octaviim in urbe 
mansimus, nosmet oblectantes quantum in no- 
bis, sub ffistu, situm esset. Die profectionis, 
per favor em cujusdam ex amicis nostris, ad 
Parcwn -Geiiiralein et usque Paraim-Hiero- 
nymi, vecti sumus. Hoc favore multa alia 
non minora beneficia in nos, Novi - Eboraci, 
collata fuerunt, Amicis multis ibi obvenien- 
tibus gratiffi summse debentur. Nominum 
eorum divulgationem nostra in illos observan- 
tia vetat. Ex amicis quibus, unus, cui literas 
pertuli, quern tamen antea non noveram, tes- 
seram nummariam pro pecuniae tanto quantum 
nobis necessarium esset, ut ipsi describerem 
etiam atque etiam institit. Propter temporis 
brevitatem nobis subservientis, spectacula in 
urbe admiratione pr^sertim digna, videre non 
arbitrii nostri fuit. Aedes-Trinitatis sacra, ut 



8kp'im<:ntr}oxali xot.e. o7 

reor, ajclificioruni publiconiui pra^.stautissimum 
esse, habetur ; et turris ejus fastigiata vere 
laiitissima est, pra^cipue (juum iioii longe con- 
si>ecta : attameu, me judicante, partes interi- 
ores a3dis sacra? Par go -M&d'isoiuo adjaceutis, et 
sub cura {)astoraIi (Iulipxmi Adams, theologias 
doctoris revereiidi, i)osita^, cultui divino potius 
accom niodantu r . 

Julii die octavo, douium redituri, iiavem- 
vajyorariayn Rapidau, navarcho Cheesman, cui 
facultas est suimet cari vectoribus reddendi, 
cousceiidimus. Post visum prfficlarum alium 
sinus pulchri Neo-Eljoracensis, colles in altum 
editos in litore Novae - C^sareae prseterimus ; 
et, cum sole occidente, navis alto committitur. 
Aliquamdiu, lucerne per fenestras domorum 
m BrcLchio-Longo, superque undas effulgentes, 
cons})iciebantur. Mare, quam in itinere domo 
faciendo, tranquillius erat, et cursus maritimus 
animis da})ibusque bonis Ifetiticatus est. Ut 
supra scripsimus, thalassidronias pelagicas alias 
duas cepimus ; sed, ut in casu priori, cito lib- 
erate sunt. 

Hora tertia matutina diei Julii duodecimi, 



38 T>K iTIXKlJh- liUEVE 

moieiii in Savauua tetig'iiiuis ; dommii rcver- 
tentes, valontes, fainilirequc sanse obveiiientes. 
Brcvis sed jiiciinda fuit peregrinatio ; suaviores 
reditus salutatioque. 



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